Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China and Russia to hold energy talks while Putin visits (Reuters)
• 13 Chinese sailors killed near Golden Triangle (AP)
• China: Currency law would hurt U.S. jobs growth (Reuters)
• Wal-Marts in Chongqing closed for pork mislabeling (AP)
• China says will raise arms sales in talks with US (AP)
• China warns U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to hurt ties (Reuters)
• China activists renew efforts to see blind lawyer (AP)
• Analysis: China's military buildup: How far along is it? (Reuters)
• China voices concern after sailors killed on Mekong (Reuters)

China and Russia to hold energy talks while Putin visits (Reuters) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:18 AM PDT Reuters - China and Russia will discuss a proposed gas deal during Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Beijing, but a Russian official said Monday that no agreement would be signed.

13 Chinese sailors killed near Golden Triangle (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:15 AM PDT AP - China suspended shipping through Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle on Monday after attacks by suspected drug traffickers on two Chinese cargo ships left 13 people dead or missing on the Mekong River.

China: Currency law would hurt U.S. jobs growth (Reuters) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT Reuters - China warned the United States that it would damage relations, and American jobs, if it forces Beijing to let its currency rise under a law to be voted on in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.

Wal-Marts in Chongqing closed for pork mislabeling (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:32 AM PDT AP - Wal-Mart has been ordered to temporarily close some stores in the Chinese city of Chongqing and to pay 2.7 million yuan ($421,000) in fines following an investigation into the mislabeling of tons of regular pork as "organic."

China says will raise arms sales in talks with US (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:21 AM PDT AP - China says it will again raise the issue of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan when the two sides hold a high-level meeting Tuesday.

China warns U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to hurt ties (Reuters) Posted: 10 Oct 2011 01:49 AM PDT Reuters - China reiterated Monday that the United States' arms sales to Taiwan seriously undermines its core interests and would harm ties between Washington and Beijing.

China activists renew efforts to see blind lawyer (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 11:07 PM PDT AP - Online calls by activists to visit a blind lawyer being held under house arrest in China have drawn unusually large support, with some traipsing to his village and being detained, questioned and even beaten.

Analysis: China's military buildup: How far along is it? (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 10:19 PM PDT Reuters - China's faster-than-expected military buildup has alarmed the United States and its Asian allies and could help the Pentagon gird against deeper defense cuts threatened in some corners of Congress.

China voices concern after sailors killed on Mekong (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2011 08:35 PM PDT Reuters - At least 11 Chinese sailors were killed when their ships were attacked on the Mekong River between Thailand and Myanmar, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, voicing concern about what media reports said was an assault by drug traffickers.

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